This page shows emissions that come from the products/services that your business purchases/procures. These are
passed on (from a lifecycle perspective) to the products and services provided by your business. The amounts shown below
are autopopulated according to the average procurement for your business type.

A number of rebates are available for alternative fuel vehicles from state, federal and local agencies. We assume $2,000 rebate per vehicle is available at the time of purchase

Not included: emissions from road construction and maintenance, and other government-related emissions

3

Pledge

Telecommute to Work

$

$

My employees typically drive to work in a
vehicle that gets
mpg.
I will encourage
employees to telecommute
days per week to work, which is on average a
mile trip each way.
I will reward employees who telecommute with a gift card worth $
per week.

Employees who telecommute free up parking spaces for customers and other employees. Telecommuters can also save time by not driving, increasing the chances they'll start working on time.

My company vehicle fleet is currently driven a total of 0 miles per year, of which
% are highway miles.
The average fuel economy of my vehicles is 0 miles per gallon.
Reducing my top cruising highway speed from
mph to
mph will improve my fuel
economy by 1% per mph reduction over 60 mph. Reducing all rapid acceleration and braking can improve non-highway fuel economy by 3%.
Together these actions will improve my fuel economy to 0 miles per gallon,
saving 0 gallons per year.

Most car engines get less and less efficient as speeds increase. Smart speed management levels off emissions on the freeway and helps prevent ticket troubles.

My employees typically drive alone in a
that is
and gets
mpg.
We will encourage
employees to carpool
days per
to work, which is a
mile trip each way.
We will encourage our employees to carpool in a vehicle that gets
mpg
with a total of
people (including the driver).
We will reward employees who carpool with a gift card worth $
per week.

Employees who carpool free up parking spaces for customers and other employees. Carpoolers can also frequently take advantage of carpool-only lanes, increasing the chances they'll arrive on time for work.

Flying produces 223 grams of CO2e/passenger mile, on average (WRI-WBCSD)

Indirect emissions (from contrails and other atmospheric effects) account for 50% of total emissions

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Pledge

Offset Remaining Transportation

$

$

My company has already pledged to reduce our transportation footprint by
0 metric tons of CO2e per year. We will purchase carbon offsets for the remaining 0 tons of CO2e at a cost of $
dollars per metric ton.

Avoiding GHG emissions in one place can "offset" GHG emissions occurring somewhere else. Offsets can go toward projects such as financing a wind turbine in Asia, a solar roof-top in Africa or a reforestation program in South America. Plus, carbon offset projects can produce positive quality-of-life impacts such as increasing economic and social development and supporting clean technology.

Offsets are assumed to be "additional" greenhouse gas emissions that would NOT otherwise be reduced without your purchase of carbon offsets. Examples include projects that would not be profitable, and therefore not undertaken, without the additional funds provided by carbon offset sponsors

10

Pledge

Install LED Outdoor Parking Lights with Motion Sensors

$

$

Currently, my company uses watt lights to illuminate our parking lot.
We will retrofit
existing outdoor parking lights with
LED lights and motion sensors. Each light will cost $
and each sensor will cost $.

In addition to the cost of the lights and sensors, we assume a fitting cost of $

Price of electricity: 0 (cents/kWh)

11

Pledge

Switch to CFLs

$

$

At work, we use the lights about
hours a day on average. My company has
incadescents left that we will upgrade to CFLs.

Everyone knows CFL's are a better lightning investment. If you have any incadescents left in your workplace, they're slurping away four times more energy than their efficient CFL relatives for the same brightness.

My company currently uses
lower wattage lights at an average of
watts each and
higher wattage lights at an average of
watts. My employees are away from their desks for an average of
hours per day but work
days per week for an average of
hours per week.
We pledge to encourage our employees to turn off the lights at their desks when they leave the room for lunch and at the end of the day.

My company uses:
for heating purposes.
Typical 0 square foot businesses in the
0
sector in my climate spend $0 per year on heating. My company uses
of similar businesses to heat the workplace, or $0 per year.
We will turn our thermostat down
degrees F on winter days and
degrees F on winter nights.

Smart settings on your thermostat is one of the best things you can do to save energy because heating is the largest single contributor to energy use in typical businesses, even in many moderate climates.

Typical 0 square foot businesses in my climate spend $
0 (0 kWh)
per year on air conditioning. My company uses the AC about
of typical businesses, or $0
(0 kWh) per year.
We will turn the thermostat up
degrees F on summer days and
degrees F on summer nights.

If you don't already do this, setting your thermostat to a neutral temperature while you're gone can result in an immediate 10% savings on energy. Don't let your energy dollars seep away while you're busy earning 'em!

A typical 0 square foot business in my climate spends $0 (0 kWh) per year on air conditioning. We use the AC about
of typical businesses, or $0
(0 kWh) per year.
We will replace our conventional air conditioner(s) that have a SEER rating of
with Energy Star air conditioner(s) that have a SEER rating of .

Disposable batteries are alkaline and rechargable batteries are NiCd
Rechargeable batteries can be re-used
time and costs times as much as disposable models

Cost of disposable batteries:

$
per AAA
$
per AA
$
per C
$
per D
$
per 9V

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Pledge

Purchase Green Electricity

$

$

My company uses 0 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, which produces
0 metric tons of CO2e per year.
We will purchase
of our electricity from a clean energy provider at a cost of $
per metric ton of CO2e.

Voluntary buy-in to EPA-certified green power has soared with 41% annual growth rates since 2004, and one in four utilites now offering the green power upgrade option. If you haven't joined yet, it's a simple and effective way to green your business' power.

On average, we collectively take showers a day.
Our showers are on average taken for minutes each.
Of my company's showerheads, we will replace
of them with more efficient, low-flow showerheads.
They will each cost $.

We assume that the conventional faucet uses gallons per minute while the new low-flow faucets use
gallons per minute

34

Pledge

Choose a Low Flow Toilet

$

$

Our company will replace
of our old
gallon per flush toilet(s) with a
gallon low-flush model that costs $

35

Pledge

Install Water Efficient Landscaping

$

$

A business of 0 square feet typically has . Water efficient
landscapes can be obtained by introducing more drought-tolerant plants to your business' landscape and maintaining them more efficiently with drip-irrigation.

We assume that the incremental cost of drip irrigation is $ per square foot and the incremental cost of drought-tolerant plants is $
per square foot

36

Pledge

Plant Trees

$

$

In addition to the direct energy saving benefits, planting trees can increase natural beauty of city landscapes, reduce pollution, cool outside temperatures, as well as provide wood, fruit and other beneficial products.
My company will plant trees. Each tree will cost $

My business has already pledged to reduce our company's footprint by 0 metric tons of CO2e per year. We will purchase carbon offsets for the remaining 0 tons of CO2e at a cost of
$
dollars per metric ton.

Avoiding GHG emissions in one place can "offset" GHG emissions occurring somewhere else. Offsets can go toward projects such as financing a wind turbine in Asia, a solar roof-top in Africa or a reforestation program in South America. Plus, carbon offset projects can produce positive quality-of-life impacts such as increasing economic and social development and supporting clean technology.

Offsets are assumed to be "additional" greenhouse gas emissions that would NOT otherwise be reduced without your purchase of carbon offsets. Examples include projects that would not be profitable, and therefore not undertaken, without the additional funds provided by carbon offset sponsors

40

Pledge

Offset Remaining Procurement

$

$

My business has already pledged to reduce our food, goods and services footprint by 0 metric tons of CO2e per year. We will purchase carbon offsets for the remaining 0 tons of CO2e at a cost of
$
dollars per metric ton.

Avoiding GHG emissions in one place can "offset" GHG emissions occurring somewhere else. Offsets can go toward projects such as financing a wind turbine in Asia, a solar roof-top in Africa or a reforestation program in South America. Plus, carbon offset projects can produce positive quality-of-life impacts such as increasing economic and social development and supporting clean technology.

Offsets are assumed to be "additional" greenhouse gas emissions that would NOT otherwise be reduced without your purchase of carbon offsets. Examples include projects that would not be profitable, and therefore not undertaken, without the additional funds provided by carbon offset sponsors